Plans to develop 300 new homes which would have engulfed a historic row of houses built as part of the Victorian movement which was the first to champion the term greenbelt have been rejected by councillors.
The applicant, ID Stoneyburn Ltd, applied for outline consent to develop 44 acres on the western edge of Stoneyburn/Bents on what is currently open farmland and woods.
The plans attracted dozens of objections, including many from people who live in Garden City - the street of cottages named for the Garden city movement, which was an early urban planning ethos that celebrated the importance of green space.
